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News January 2010
I am now part of Book View Cafe, where I will soon offer the e-book version of Crown Duel (with Vidanric's inserts) among other e-books. (I just have to find a way to get
this stuff scanned!) Also forthcoming in e-books will be Wren Journeymage and Exordium.
For print books, DAW has scheduled Coronets and Steel for September 2010--quite unlike any of my other DAW books--romantic,
swashbuckling fun in this world, with a magical overlay. It's more Ruritanian than urban fantasy, but I suppose it will be regarded as UF. The paperback of Treason's Shore will come out in October; not sure about Banner of the Damned
(which I am writing right now)
With the fourth and last Inda book,
Treason's Shore,
I finished a cycle early in Sartorias-deles history. It was just over ten years ago when I finally got the first image of this one: children in a courtyard,
as a boy's voice pipes, "Let's go fight the girls!" It was longer ago than that when I was in map-making mode, and I first wrote, "Elgar Strait." Must have
been around 1969, and all I remember thinking is, "People said he was a pirate but he wasn't, and his name wasn't Elgar, either." There is one more historical novel set in that world, Banner of the Damned, which takes place roughly halfway between Inda
and the "present"--400 years either way. It involves a smaller group of people, and delves heavily not only into culture clash and questions about love
and family, but goes into magic, and the nature of evil. It should stand alone (I keep paring it and paring to make sure of that), so that I can
move to the present day novels, on which I've been working for many years. The prequel to Crown Duel,
A Stranger to Command is out in paperback. A second edition of the hardcover will be out soon,
with this cover. In it, Shevraeth meets Senrid, who is central to the present day storyline.
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